Chapter Thirty-Nine Knowing the Causes and Consequences(2/2)
Later, some owners of several business houses suggested that it would be better to follow the caravans from these two countries to Dashi and Tianzhu to visit their countries.
See if you can buy any rare goods and transport them back to Dalong for sale.
The grass-roots father and other family heads who had originally planned to go to the King of Dayuan to purchase a batch of Dayuan horses were immediately moved.
After talking with the translator from the Western Regions, the caravan leaders of the two countries welcomed us to their countries for trade.
The caravan then purchased another batch of good-quality Western Region goods from the countries in the Western Regions, and followed the caravans from the two countries to rush to the cities of the two countries.
Later, under the recommendation of Ahem and Uji, the leaders of the caravans of the two countries, we successively established relationships with the city lords at the border gates of the two countries, and were introduced to the kings of the two countries by the city lords.
But we didn't expect that in a country with such an approachable caravan, their king would actually... actually... not only rob our caravan of gold, silver, treasures and goods, but also return it.
He sent soldiers and horses from the city to massacre our brothers.
In the end, only Cao Min managed to escape."
After Lu Fengshuang finished speaking, two lines of tears fell from his eyes.
However, none of the officials present, including Liu Mingzhi, had any intention of ridiculing, and some only had anger and resentment.
Liu Mingzhi lowered his head and thought for a while, then looked doubtfully at Lu Fengshuang, who was wiping his tears.
"There are more than 3,000 caravans, and 18 merchants have joined together. Among them, there should be at least about 300 to 500 good guards.
Could it be that the combat power of the soldiers and horses in the cities of these two countries was so great that the guards of your caravan were captured without any resistance?
Even if you three thousand ordinary business people rise up to resist, you shouldn't be the only one who comes back, right?
Is there any other reason for this?"
"Your Majesty is wise.
The common people also don’t know when the rulers of the two countries reached a secret agreement, intending to split our caravan in two, enter the territories of the two countries for trade, and then enter their royal cities to receive the hospitality of their rulers.
Halfway through the banquet, they poured a kind of poison into the wine that the common people didn’t know what kind it was!
The grass-roots people escaped because they went out for convenience. After the grass-roots people noticed something was wrong, they witnessed the death of my father and various family heads from poisoning outside... After the grass-roots people secretly left, they immediately summoned the guards of the caravan.
After feasting on the soldiers and horses in the king's city, he began to hunt down and kill the caravan brothers in the city who did not enter the palace for the banquet.
But he was unfamiliar with the place. The caravan guards protected the common people and rushed out of the palace, and then fought their way out of the royal city. Only about twenty people were left.
Along the way, he was like a bereaved dog avoiding the pursuit of soldiers and horses from the Great Food Kingdom.
In order to keep the grassroots alive and bring the news back, the caravan guards gave up all the water and food to the grassroots, and selected the last five good men to escort the grassroots to the countries in the Western Regions.
When we arrived at Yumen Pass, in order to give food and drinking water to the grassroots, the last guard..."
"The other half of the caravan assigned to Tianzhu was also massacred?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I heard that after they were poisoned, they were killed on the spot without even waking up. The rest of the brothers scattered in the city were arrested and burned alive with fire...
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Liu Mingzhi clenched his fists and hammered the floor hard: "Shameless barbarians, extremely abominable!
If I don’t avenge this, I will become an emperor in vain!”
"Your Majesty, please make the decision for my father and the three thousand brothers and fathers who died tragically!"
"Ministry of War! Have General Ma sent messages to the guards recently?"
"Report to Your Majesty, we can rush to the capital within three days!"
"Immediately pass the order, and the deputy commanders and generals of all the troops will prepare for war. After receiving the order, the army will immediately set off and rush to Ganzhou to join forces!"
"Old minister, I obey the order!"
Chapter completed!